[Of obscure origin; perh. phonetically symbolic after words like stuff, podge; cf. also STOG v., STOACH v.]
1. trans. To fill quite full, to fill to distension. † Also, to stuff in as a filling material (obs.).
1674. Dryden, in Johnson, L. P., Dryden (1781), II. 21. It is a kind of gibblet porridge,… stodged full of meteors, orbs, spheres [etc.].
1685. H. More, Paralip. Prophet., xli. 357. To bring in the Ostrogoths here, is as if one stuffing a Pillow with feathers, should so forget himself, as to stodge in pieces of Brick or Clay.
1790. W. H. Marshall, Rur. Econ. Midl., II. 443. Stodged; filled to the stretch; as a cow’s udder with milk.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Stodged, filled to the stretch; crammed full…. If things were crushed very closely into a sack, it would be stodged.
b. esp. To gorge with food.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v., Sometimes it is applied personally: ‘If you eat all that, you will be stodged full.’
1860. Hotten’s Slang Dict., 229.
1895. Allbutt, in Contemp. Rev., Feb., 220. A ‘City man’ … stodges his stomach with rich food three times a day.
absol. 1911. Barrie, Peter & Wendy, vii. 114. He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy.
c. fig. Also to stodge off: to repulse by a surfeit.
1876. Sir J. Paget, Mem. & Lett., II. iv. (1901), 282. We had begun to feel ‘stodged’: the mediæval art at Florence, especially, had quite filled us.
1894. Blackmore, Perlycross, xxi. I thought I was a pretty plucky fellow,… but I’ll show you where I was stodged off.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 11 Dec., 3/1. Alas! it is mostly fiction that gluts the market, ‘stodges’ the reader, and … kills the few living books.
2. dial. (See quots.)
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Stodge, to stir up various ingredients into a thick mass.
1895. Dial. Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.), I. VIII. 394. Stodge, to muss or mix up. Ind.
3. pass. To be stuck in the mud, to be bogged. (Cf. STOG v.2)
1873. W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones, Gloss. Somerset, 36. Pendummer Where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer.
1902. C. G. Harper, Cambridge, Ely, etc. Road, 54. Enfield Highway … was until quite recently stodged in sloughs.
4. intr. To work steadily at (something ‘stodgy’ or tedious). colloq.
Hence Stodged ppl. a., Stodging vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1873. W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones, Gloss. Somerset., 36. Stodged adj. stuffed with eating.
1898. Ellen T. Fowler, Conc. Isabel Carnaby, 124. Admiration is like porridge—awfully stodging, but you get hungry again almost as soon as you’ve eaten it.
1903. Fred Whishaw, in Longm. Mag., Oct., 527. The ‘stodged’ schoolboy again, for whom fielding out is a grievance.
1912. Daily News, 31 Dec., 9. There must be no eating when not hungry and no ‘stodging’ between meals.
